we have the opportunity to recognize God’s greatness and our need for God’s revelation and intervention in our lives. Prayer keeps our pride in check and opens our hearts and minds to hearing and responding to God’s truth by the power of the Holy Spirit. As C. S. Lewis points out, pride separates us from proper communion with God and others: In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that—and, therefore, know yourself as